3 Police are still piecing together a crime against an 18-year-old Andrew Jackson student who was walking to school. At first .. it was reported as an attempted abduction and robbery .. then later it was changed to just a robbery. The scene was 27th and Main .. just a few blocks from the school. The teen told police two men force her into a car tried and robbed her. Channel 4's Jim Piggott is LIVE in Brentwood with an update on the investigation. Jim. 3 3 3 00-0516-26107-112Police came to the Brentwood home around 8 o'clock this morning after > they had heard the girl had been attacked while walking to school. At > that time they believed that she was abducted thrown in a car and > driven to another location. The girls mother told us she couldn't > believe it she was hearing when she got the call > > Shantoni Campbell.Mother. Time 1:50:26 > I dropped the phone and oh god is my baby ok. As a child we try to teach them is if a person tries to abduct you. You kick you fight and draw attention to yourself. So people can see something is going on.> She fought she got away and made it to her grandmother house safe > > Police say as they continue to investigate they learned that the girl was not kidnapped but still believe she was robbed at gunpoint. They are looking for two suspects though the descriptions are very vague. Police say that the two were in a black impala with a leather interior > The girl wasn't injured and she told police that she actually took the phone of one of the suspects and they grabbed her purse and phone.> Our crime expert can Jefferson says she did the right thing.> Ken Jefferson. Time code 1:55:38 > The way this student survived this incident is the fact she did fight > and she managed to get away 3 ask jim piggott a question

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -

Police say an 18-year-old girl is safe after claiming she got away from two armed men Tuesday morning in the Brentwood area of Jacksonville's Northside.

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The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said the teenager told officers she was walking to Andrew Jackson High School along 27th at Main streets about 8 a.m. when two men abducted her at gunpoint.

Police later said there was no kidnapping, and that they are only investigating the incident as a robbery, but they did not provide details.

Earlier in the day, the girl's mother described it as an abduction.

"One got out and snatched her by her jacket and her hair, and they slung her in the backseat of the car," the teen's mother said. "He had her head down, held her at gunpoint."

She said one of the men tried to rob her. According to police, the teen took the phone of one of the men, and they grabbed her purse and phone.

"My daughter knows to fight, kick, whatever it is that you have to do, handle yourself to be able to get away and get free, and she did just that," the teen's mother said.

The girl told police that when the car stopped at a dead end of 25th Street at Brentwood Park, she got out and ran to her grandmother's home, then called police, investigators said.

"I'm just glad that she made it here safe, because someone else's child might not have been that lucky," the teen's mother said. "It's said because these streets our not safe for our children."

The victim's mother and grandmother said she was shaken up but was OK.

"She don't want to walk nowhere no more, she said," said Patricia Macon, the teen's grandmother. "From now on she's going to get taken to school. I'm not taken another chance by her walking."

Police said they were looking for two male suspects, possibly in their teens, in a black Chevrolet Impala with dark, tinted windows and two leather seats. They said one was wearing a black windbreaker with lime green trim.

The school was not put on lockdown at any point.

Anyone with any information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 866-845-TIPS.

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